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Originally posted by marg6043
The state of California wants a Federal bailout, what Governor Arnold is doing voicing what he will do if that bailout doesn't come soon enough.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
that means if this passes
welfare recipients wont get their
July 1st checks.
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Instead of deporting them
he's just starving them out.
California leaders seek budget help from D.C.
Billions in cash, easing of mandates on wish list,
It is not just cash that California wants. Schwarzenegger is calling for permanent changes to the formula that determines the amount of money the federal government contributes to Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid program, noting that the state is among the lowest in the country in reimbursement rates. He also wants money for the costs of providing special education in schools and incarcerating illegal immigrants, both unfunded federal mandates.
Steinberg said he wants a "dynamic partnership" between the federal government and the states, led by California, to spend money for infrastructure.
"No one is looking for a bailout. We're looking for an investment," he said, adding that the state needs to "fight" for more money.
Fuel for the engine
"It's in the national interest because California is an economic engine, and if we continue to be bogged down in deficits that are largely the result of the recession, then the country is going to have a hard time recovering," he said.
California already has received just over $8 billion in federal stimulus dollars that helped the state close the budget deficit last year. On Friday, Schwarzenegger will release his initial budget proposal for the next fiscal year, and the Legislative Analyst's Office already has called on state leaders to "aggressively seek new federal assistance" to help close the projected deficit.
The stimulus money, some of which was supposed to last through the next fiscal year, has been spent, and the state must continue to adhere to the requirements that came with accepting the funds, such as maintaining certain levels of funding for health and human services.
Some Republicans in the Legislature said those strings should have been more closely examined before California accepted the federal stimulus dollars in the first place.
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
If they don't put people to work, and cut their only means of survival then they must be insane.
Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts are spread over many public programs, but the largest would eliminate the CalWORKS welfare program and do away with child care funding except for preschool and after-school programs, saving the state $1 billion and $1.2 billion, respectively.
State Democrats decried the plan, and promised another fight in the state's legislature this summer. “The governor’s suggestions are clearly more reflective of a hyper-partisan political agenda than in finding real solutions to our problems," said Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez in a statement. Democrats pointed out that Schwarzenegger's plan doesn't propose any tax hikes, and leaves in place $2 billion in planned corporate tax breaks.
"Now he comes forward with a vision that says children have no value," Senate budget committee chair Denise Ducheny told the San Jose Mercury News. "To tell 500,000 families they shall be homeless in lieu of delaying corporate tax breaks is hard to understand."
Schwarzenegger cited three factors as contributing to the budget shortfall: legislative resistance, reimbursement due the state from the federal government, and court decisions that blocked trims to health and human services programs. "Because these judges have prevented us from using a scalpel to go and trim some of those programs," he said, "we now have to use the ax."
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
reply to post by dzonatas
Governor Schwarzenegger's proposed cuts are spread over many public programs, but the largest would eliminate the CalWORKS welfare program and do away with child care funding
leaves in place $2 billion in planned corporate tax breaks.
"Now he comes forward with a vision that says children have no value,"
Originally posted by Fractured.Facade
It does not matter what they say at this point, California will soon be faced with a do or die situation that will give them no other option but to massively cut spending if the state is going to survive.
Originally posted by ..5..
The best thing for Cali would be to go bankrupt and break the union contracts. Start over from scratch.